Galactic Invaders

Pear Fiction Studios leans into a cartoonish alien-invasion theme for Galactic Invaders, using the same bright, exaggerated art style found across its catalogue rather than anything moody. It launched in March 2024 and shares a visual link with the studio's earlier Blazing Mammoth XL.

A 5x3 grid carries the action, with a ways-to-win counter above the reels tracking the count as it moves between a default 243 and a maximum of 7,776 once the reel-splitting mechanic kicks in.

Tentacled card symbols from ten to ace form the low-paying tier, worth 1x the stake for five of a kind, while four alien character symbols sit as the premiums, paying 2x to 10x for the same length. A UFO wild covers every regular symbol except the scatters and the Alien SwiftHits icons, and any multiplier riding on a wild in the base game applies directly to the way it completes.

Landing three or more Alien SwiftHits symbols triggers the Instant Alien Jackpot, with the payout scaling up through nine steps as more symbols join the count, running from a small multiple of the stake at three symbols up to 5,000x the stake when all twelve positions carry one. Two sub-types add extra movement to that count — a Respin version locks its reel and spins it again, and a Split version can add up to three more symbols to a reel, capping at six per reel. Scatters land only on reels two, three and four, and three of them spin a wheel that awards between 8 and 15 free spins along with a multiplier of 2x to 8x; that multiplier applies to every win in the round bar the SwiftHits jackpots, rises further whenever a wild multiplier is involved, and the round can be retriggered for the same initial spin count.

The default RTP is 96%, with three lower alternate configurations at 94.02%, 92.02% and 86.73%. Volatility is rated high, hit frequency is 30.5%, the maximum win is 5,000x the stake, and bets run from 0.20 to 50 per spin.

The SwiftHits counter gives nearly every spin something to watch even without a full jackpot line, and the split and respin variants mean that count can build gradually rather than needing to land all at once.